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I really hate this phrase without context.

Taung child is a transitional fossil because Au. africanus is a transitional species.

Taung child is not a transitional fossil because his descendants never transitioned into anything... because they didn't exist.

But it's still true that Taung child is a transitional fossil because it's highly unlikely that that single fossil was the only one of his species.
 
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It is not the skull that makes us human or ape, it is the brain inside of the skull.
Well that is a purely personal attack which no good Christian would ever do.
What is a "good" Christian? Interesting that you can have the belief that Christians can be good. Titus 1:15 "To the pure all things are pure".

1Cor "4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
 
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@-57, still waiting on you to say how all of the world's geologists, biologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists are wrong with their evidence.
When God Created the world He used more than natural wisdom, of which your list of scientists possess.

How much God knew before Creating the Cosmos and Earth is astronomical, which mortal man cannot grasp. To bring about apparent age of 15 billion years is not your common Guy nor knowledge-base to compare a list of scientists to.

Learning and summarizing without Him being central and revealing mysteries only He can reveal is not wise.

Like many, I've had to learn to not trust men, even smart men.

Evolution of creatures on Earth over epochs of geologic time never happened. Though in times past through personal investigation and formal education as a trained geologist I knew nothing else.
 
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@-57, still waiting on the reason why all of the world's scientists have misinterpreted their data that ends up telling them the Earth is old when it's really young.
Either give the answer or just admit that you were just blustering.
Apparent age. Ask Him. He is ever present, having watched our every move and thought in life. When we were five was like a minute ago to Him viewing our ways.
 
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Life is not chemical at all. You cannot weigh it, smell it, measure it, move it, taste it, create it or explain it.

Actually if you use the right chemical means, stop the right chemical reactions going on in the body, life stops. Life IS chemistry.

It is an enigmatic force.

Can you show me this "force" somewhere?

You cannot have a bunch of material needed for life and voila it spontaneously all comes together and breathes.

Why not? Just because we haven't been able to yet create a living being in the lab from raw carbon and hydrogen, I don't see why we cannot. We haven't created a self-sustaining star in the lab yet, but we know how stars work (fusion).

To say that all these intimately complex materials, components, chemicals, enzymes, proteins, compounds all came about by chance is one infinitely unbelievable event or events. To say that they somehow came alive..... that is just thousands of times more likely.

But it's not pure random chance, now is it? Chemicals utilize stochastic processes but certain reactions are favored and others disfavored.

For instance life has a "homochirality" to many of the chemicals we use in our bodies. This is related to the arrangement of certain atoms in certain positions. The very same atoms arranged in a slightly different order around a single atom would chemically be the same but stereoisometrically quite different, and living systems can only use one of these arrangements. The other is useless.

Interestingly enough there are a few candidate mineral surfaces that preferentially adsorb one stereoisomer over another. And this one is the one life uses. Interesting, isn't it? Life may have required non-life to start.

We don't even know what life is or how to create it.

We actually do know what life is and we know how to create it. We may have not yet done so, but it is not necessarily ipso facto impossible.

It is a huge leap of faith to believe that evolution started from some spontaneous life form.

This is a pretty serious error. Evolution and biogenesis are unrelated topics. Evolution is related to CHANGE in life over time. Abiogenesis is the ORIGIN of life. The origin of life would be a chemical feature, the evolution of life, once created, would be completely different in nature.

To say that evolution doesn't need to answer how life came to be is skipping the most important event.

Not really. UNLESS you are of the opinion that you have to know exactly how the car was invented and built for you to drive down the street.

I can disprove that point...and already did this morning.

everything is hinged on the HOW. IF you cannot get that answer the rest is meaningless.

Not really. I am a chemist. I pour chemical A into a beaker with Chemical B. They react. I can make the reaction run because I know A+B-->C. Even if I don't know the details of the reaction I can still make it go and I can even characterize it very thoroughly.

Now this is not to say that I wont' further study A+B-->C, but hopefully you get the point.

The HOW determines the WHY and determines what happened after that.

Not really. People used fire for eons before anyone knew a thing about combustion or the chemistry involved.
 
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Like many, I've had to learn to not trust men, even smart men.

And the great thing about this point of view is that one can always tell who is smart by whether they agree with you or not!

Evolution of creatures on Earth over epochs of geologic time never happened. Though in times past through personal investigation and formal education as a trained geologist I knew nothing else.

Why don't we EVER find trilobite fossils in the same rock as rabbit bones?
 
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When God Created the world He used more than natural wisdom, of which your list of scientists possess.

How much God knew before Creating the Cosmos and Earth is astronomical, which mortal man cannot grasp. To bring about apparent age of 15 billion years is not your common Guy nor knowledge-base to compare a list of scientists to.

Learning and summarizing without Him being central and revealing mysteries only He can reveal is not wise.

Like many, I've had to learn to not trust men, even smart men.

Evolution of creatures on Earth over epochs of geologic time never happened. Though in times past through personal investigation and formal education as a trained geologist I knew nothing else.

Apparent age. Ask Him. He is ever present, having watched our every move and thought in life. When we were five was like a minute ago to Him viewing our ways.

You're not answering the question, and it seems no creationist will. Although I do have a thread for this topic, "Scientists misrepresenting data w/regards to YEC". Maybe you could actually say what scientific evidence all scientists all over the world are missing when they look at the evidence and data that tells them world is over 4.5 billion years old when it should be 6000 years old.
 
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Apparent age. Ask Him. He is ever present, having watched our every move and thought in life. When we were five was like a minute ago to Him viewing our ways.

Why does He allow so many to be confused by the "apparent age" of the rocks?
 
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Apparent age. Ask Him. He is ever present, having watched our every move and thought in life. When we were five was like a minute ago to Him viewing our ways.

So you agree that from a scientific point of view, the evidence is consistent with an old Earth?
 
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You're not answering the question, and it seems no creationist will. Although I do have a thread for this topic, "Scientists misrepresenting data w/regards to YEC". Maybe you could actually say what scientific evidence all scientists all over the world are missing when they look at the evidence and data that tells them world is over 4.5 billion years old when it should be 6000 years old.

You do realise scientists can be wrong ?
In the 1950's and 60' You were laughed at if you mentioned the big bang in academic circles.
That steady state was known to be the correct theory. That is the universe was always there. That's what Stephen Hawking's is renown for. Reproving the big bang theory.
 
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You do realise scientists can be wrong ?
In the 1950's and 60' You were laughed at if you mentioned the big bang in academic circles.
That steady state was known to be the correct theory. That is the universe was always there. That's what Stephen Hawking's is renown for. Reproving the big bang theory.

That's got nothing to do with my question. But if you want to discuss that particular question, you can take it on to the thread I started "Scientists misrepresenting the data w/regards to YEC". I'll happily discuss it there.
 
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That's got nothing to do with my question. But if you want to discuss that particular question, you can take it on to the thread I started "Scientists misrepresenting the data w/regards to YEC". I'll happily discuss it there.

what on earth ? You main point in that post was.

""Maybe you could actually say what scientific evidence all scientists all over the world are missing when they look at the evidence and data that tells them world is over 4.5 billion years old when it should be 6000 years old.""

I'm pointing out that the main scientific consensus can be wrong
And I gave you and example of the majority of scientists being wrong. That is on topic of what you said. LOL
 
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I'm pointing out that the main scientific consensus can be wrong
And I gave you and example of the majority of scientists being wrong. That is on topic of what you said. LOL

Just because something can be wrong does not mean that it is wrong. Big difference between the two.

Young Earth Creationists are making the claim that the scientists are wrong. Not that they could be wrong, but that they are wrong. Whenever those claims are looked at closely, it turns out the professional YEC's are either misrepresenting the science or outright lying. We have yet to see a case where this doesn't happen. As for YEC's in these forums, I would hope that they didn't know they were being lied to and will cease to use the material once it is shown they are in error.
 
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You do realise scientists can be wrong ?
In the 1950's and 60' You were laughed at if you mentioned the big bang in academic circles.
That steady state was known to be the correct theory. That is the universe was always there. That's what Stephen Hawking's is renown for. Reproving the big bang theory.

Scientists who make important discoveries are often laughed at, but so are clowns.
 
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Actually if you use the right chemical means, stop the right chemical reactions going on in the body, life stops. Life IS chemistry.

A two year old can pour sugar in the gas tank of a lawn mower and ruin the engine and make it so it will not run but they cannot design an internal combustion engine. We can remove the components and compounds necessary for life and make it impossible for life to exist in an organism. But we cannot start with everything required and in perfect working order and bring it to life.

Life requires chemistry in order to function but it is not chemistry. I require all the components of my car to function properly for me to drive it but I am not mechanical.

We can remove life, we cannot insert it.

Can you show me this "force" somewhere?
No, not at all, that is just it. You cannot see it. You can only see the results of it's existence.

Why not? Just because we haven't been able to yet create a living being in the lab from raw carbon and hydrogen, I don't see why we cannot. We haven't created a self-sustaining star in the lab yet, but we know how stars work (fusion).

We never have and never will. Life was only created once for each "kind". Since then, this life force has been passed on in each cell replication and organism reproduction.

God breathed life into Adam and through Adam's rib it was passed on to Eve. Then through their biological reproduction, designed by God, this life was passed on to each and every child born. We do not create a new life we create a new human by passing on the life of one living male cell and one living female cell which combine these two living cells to grow into a new human being. Two lives become one.

Good luck trying but life comes only from God and only He allows and grants permission for the time when it is removed from each living being.



But it's not pure random chance, now is it? Chemicals utilize stochastic processes but certain reactions are favored and others disfavored.

Using big words like stochastic is not going to worry me. The world runs on chemical reactions that are predictable and controllable. Many times they are out of control as well. We use them every day and actually count on them for life.

What chemical reaction takes all the elements in this primordial soup and through stochastic processes produces the complexity and wealth of digital information found in even the most simplest organisms DNA?

Since these reactions are processes they should be easily repeated. Let's see you create a protein, just one from a mixture of the raw elements that they are made up of... you cannot. And, in relation to that, let's see the chemical formula for creation of a strand of DNA for even the most basic and simple organism.... even more impossible. Then, the biggy..... bring it to life.... Now your odds are astronomically beyond any comprehension of reasonable.

Man has been trying to do this for years and cannot do it even in carefully engineered and controlled environments. You believe it happened spontaneously?

For instance life has a "homochirality" to many of the chemicals we use in our bodies. This is related to the arrangement of certain atoms in certain positions. The very same atoms arranged in a slightly different order around a single atom would chemically be the same but stereoisometrically quite different, and living systems can only use one of these arrangements. The other is useless.

Isn't this just more proof of how intrinsically delicate the foundation platform must be for life to exist? How many things have to be just perfect for even a sniff of a chance of life existing even if it is set up to exist let alone happen all by chance?

Interestingly enough there are a few candidate mineral surfaces that preferentially adsorb one stereoisomer over another. And this one is the one life uses. Interesting, isn't it? Life may have required non-life to start.

Interesting isn't it that God created life and developed processes for it to function and you state that the process was there and allowed life to spontaneously begin. Chicken/egg. Which was first, Life designed and the process part of life or the process set up by some random law of nature that was there and allowed life to begin?


We actually do know what life is and we know how to create it. We may have not yet done so, but it is not necessarily ipso facto impossible.

IF you know what life is and how to create it, why haven't they? I'm sure it would be all over the world news. Until something is "done" it is impossible. If it was possible, it would have been done.

The only time mankind is going to develop life from no life is going to be a farce anyway. This will be when Satan gives life to the beast. Man will claim it is like God for it created life as He did. But it will be demonic possession from Satan himself and the end will be so near you will be able to taste it.



This is a pretty serious error. Evolution and biogenesis are unrelated topics. Evolution is related to CHANGE in life over time. Abiogenesis is the ORIGIN of life. The origin of life would be a chemical feature, the evolution of life, once created, would be completely different in nature.

So you go through all these arguments to basically say "it doesn't matter, evolution doesn't deal with where life came from"?

Talk about sour grapes... But, no worries, I have heard this so often, "evolution is only about what happened AFTER life began"... Nice dodge of the biggest and most difficult problem.

In my opinion, if you cannot tell me where life came from, then you have no right in telling me how everything that has life got to be what it is either.

The odds of life happening spontaneously DEMANDS that you create every living thing from that one impossible event. This is because the odds of that happening are so insurmountably huge it could never of happened once let alone as many times as would have been necessary for all life forms to spontaneously show up.... alive.

Come to me with a how it started and then maybe you can be more prepared to say how it developed.



Not really. UNLESS you are of the opinion that you have to know exactly how the car was invented and built for you to drive down the street.


I don't need to know how or where life started in order to live it. I don't even have to know how all the different species came to be to feed them watch them eat them etc.

Your point?



Not really. I am a chemist. I pour chemical A into a beaker with Chemical B. They react. I can make the reaction run because I know A+B-->C. Even if I don't know the details of the reaction I can still make it go and I can even characterize it very thoroughly.

Ya, ya, you're a chemist. You work with known reactions. Chemical A plus Chemical B gets chemical C or reaction X. Add some heat and it speeds up, add chemical D and it becomes Chemical Y... Ya, I know, I work in the science field too.

Thing is, with all the knowledge we have of chemistry, biology, physics, etc.... still, if given an organism of perfectly good quality and condition.....YOU CANNOT GIVE IT LIFE.



Not really. People used fire for eons before anyone knew a thing about combustion or the chemistry involved.

Again, your point? People can create fire. We cannot create life.
 
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Life requires chemistry in order to function but it is not chemistry.

Then what processes aren't chemical?

We can remove life, we cannot insert it.

That just means that we lack the chemical tools to create life. There was a time that we couldn't produce lightning, but now we can. Did that mean that lightning used to be magic, but became physics after that?

You are using an argument from ignorance, a very popular argument among theists as of late.
 
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We never have and never will.

I try not to deal in universal negative claims. Especially ones without any support.

Using big words like stochastic is not going to worry me.

Hopefully not! I assumed you were capable of holding your own in a conversation related to science and chemistry.

What chemical reaction takes all the elements in this primordial soup and through stochastic processes produces the complexity and wealth of digital information found in even the most simplest organisms DNA?

Polymerase chain reaction. It's used like every day in DNA labs all across the world.

Since these reactions are processes they should be easily repeated. Let's see you create a protein, just one from a mixture of the raw elements that they are made up of... you cannot.

Protein Chemical Synthesis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845543/

IF you know what life is and how to create it, why haven't they?

We know how stars work, yet we have yet to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction here on earth.

So you go through all these arguments to basically say "it doesn't matter, evolution doesn't deal with where life came from"?

No, I was hoping to educate you. You should know by now (if you have been involved in the creation/evolution debate for any length of time that evolution is NOT abiogenesis.)

I don't need to know how or where life started in order to live it.

Based on what you said in your previous post, you DO.

Ya, ya, you're a chemist. You work with known reactions. Chemical A plus Chemical B gets chemical C or reaction X. Add some heat and it speeds up, add chemical D and it becomes Chemical Y... Ya, I know, I work in the science field too.

What area?
 
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